My Ancestors were Manorial Tenants

By Peter B. Park. 57 pages. ISBN 1-903462-59-2.

The manor was an institution that affected almost every aspect of the lives of our English ancestors. It determined their rents and who inherited their land, decided where they grazed their cattle and when they cut the bracken, checked the condition of their dwellings and waterways, mediated in their financial, slanderous or pugilistic disputes, dictated where their corn should be ground, defended them against a greedy landlord - and against one another, punished them with amercements or set them in the stocks and controlled the quality of their ale and bread. In an earlier age it also determined the occupations their sons should follow and whom their daughters might marry. And yet, despite all this, manorial records are sadly under-used by family historians. This booklet seeks to show that the effort spending out about this class of document can be well rewarded..

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